Dan Neciu
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A software engineering podcast for senior developers, staff engineers, and tech leads who build and scale systems in production. Hosted by Neciu Dan, Señors @ Scale features deep, technical conversations with engineering leaders from companies like Google, AWS, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Datadog, and Snyk. Every week, we sit down with Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders to unpack the real challenges of frontend architecture, micro frontends, React and Vue at scale, design systems, security, reliability, and technical leadership. No fluff, no surface-level takes. Just hard-
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed practitioner conversations connect software architecture and engineering leadership to the tradeoffs that emerge in production.
Senors at Scale - Software Engineering & Tech Leadership turns production engineering into a conversation about choices and consequences. Neciu Dan questions practitioners about how systems, teams, and technical roles behave once they meet organizational scale.
The case for vertical micro-frontends includes a way back when your migration gets messy.
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PostCSS scale, plugin order conflicts, and the messy work of getting open source adopted.
At its center, the episode is about what happens when open source tools get widely used. Andrei Sidnik traces PostCSS, Autoprefixer, BrowserList, and Logos, and the scale is hard to ignore when his tools are said to account for 0.7% of all NPM downloads.
React practice, rewrite tradeoffs, and the harder work of modernizing without upsetting settled behavior.
Aurora's conversation gives a practical view of React work shaped by a path from robotics and intelligence systems into consulting, certification work, and the Norwegian open source community.
A practical race-day software story about timing, pressure, and systems that cannot miss.
This episode keeps its attention on software built for racing at scale: timing systems, data capture, and analytics for events where every millisecond counts. Jorge Cuchu's path into the work comes through cleanly.
A practical look at coupling, bounded contexts, and why DDD choices go stale when business labels change.
This episode takes a practical look at the hard edges of domain driven design, especially coupling, bounded contexts, and the way components tend to change together when they share knowledge.
A grounded look at state models, proxies, and where Waku fits beside Next.js.
Daishi Kato keeps the discussion on a practical problem: how to avoid extra re-renders without teaching developers the wrong mental model. He draws a clear line between Zustand, Jotai, and Valtio, treating them as different ways to think about state rather than as items in a…
A practical look at the ownership, confidence, and accountability that tech leads carry.
Anne-Marie Fischer comes across as a seasoned engineering leader who has spent more than a decade moving from software engineer to tech lead and product director.
A grounded look at open source strategy, hosted layers, and the tradeoffs around staying focused.
The episode follows open source strategy and the tradeoffs that come with it. It traces Corbin's path from teenage tutorials to IT work and some programming at an adult charter school, then moves into TanStack, hosted enterprise layers, and the way business demands can pull open…
A grounded DevRel conversation about trust, technical credibility, and useful feedback.
The episode treats developer relations as a trust job first and a visibility job second. Daniel Afonso keeps the focus on technical credibility, product feedback, and the gap between what teams say they want and what they actually need.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Luca Mezzalira traces micro frontends back to 2015 at The Zone, where the company grew from about 50 people to 3,500 in 18 to 24 months and the tech org reached 550 people.
Browser details matter.
Aurora Scharff, a senior consultant at Crayon Consulting in Oslo and the React certifications lead at Certificates.dev, describes moving from a robotics and intelligence systems degree into Angular, React, and consulting.
Lucian Popovici says he scaled Deloitte Digital Romania from 0 to 700 people, built service lines at Deutsche Bank that reached 100+ engineers, and now runs Bridging Innovation and Bridging Gaps.
Micro-frontends get brittle when dependencies point sideways.
Vlad Kononov, renowned software architect and author, discusses Domain-Driven Design implementation at scale.
Daniel Roe describes how he moved from a WordPress-and-agency background into the Vue and Nuxt ecosystem through Laracasts and Laravel, then into Nuxt core work.
Racing software found Jorge by chance.
Zustand stays small because that is the point.
A guest joins the show to unpack security risks around MCP servers and AI agents.
Andrey starts with scale and tooling, then gets to his origin story.
Stefano Magni walks through what happens when a design system has to grow inside a data-driven company.
Dan opens with Anne-Marie Fischer's path from studying informatics early in high school to engineering leadership.
Daniel Afonso shares his journey from childhood programming enthusiasm to becoming a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty.
Corbin Crutchley discusses his journey from early coding experiences to becoming VP of engineering and a key contributor to TanStack.
Interview with Zephyr Cloud CEO and platform engineer about building a platform for microfrontends and module federation at scale.
Interview with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and creator of Linkerd, discussing his background and the evolution of service mesh technology.
Staff engineer Tyler Benfield discusses his career journey from writing code trackside at Penske Racing to leading ambitious products at Prisma.
A senior engineer discusses implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for a bank, including migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and ArgoCD on Kubernetes.
A technical discussion comparing WebFragments and Module Federation for scaling frontend applications.
Discussion on using micro frontends for easy rollback and monitoring to improve system reliability and business impact.
A technical discussion on implementing accessible web dialogues, covering focus management, screen reader usage, and testing practices.
A technical discussion about the challenges of reading code versus writing code, with a guest sharing a real-world bug caused by JavaScript octal interpretation.
Engineering manager Ángel Paredes discusses challenges of scaling frontend systems, moving from monorepos to micro apps, and keeping senior engineers engaged.
A staff software engineer discusses frontend performance optimization, micro frontends, and improving user experience through technical architecture.